"Just as
the diverse variety of experience that one made up the living ancient past
can never be recovered, so no single history, no academic school, no
individual, can promise a definitive version of pharaonic Egypt. The best
that can be done, I think, is to recover various bits of the kaleidoscope
through which the ancient Egyptians viewed the world, and, through that
fragmented mix of endlessly repeating patterns, try to discover something
of what it was those people imagined they were doing." - Romer, J : A
History of Ancient Egypt, Penguin - New York, volume 1, 2013,
pp.xxii-xxiii.

MAAT.sofiatopia.org aims to bring into balance a multi-dimensional study
of the conceptual world, wisdom-culture and spirituality of Ancient Egypt.

This conceptual world is defined as ante-rational and approached with the critical
methods of genetic epistemology,
identifying mythical, pre-rational and proto-rational layers in the
Ancient Egyptian mentality. These pre-formal (ante-rational) modes of
cognitive functioning were discovered by Piaget. Ancient Egyptian culture
puts into evidence the excellence achieved by the "mental closure" offered
by mature proto-rationality, operating many sets of concrete
concepts adequately.

The present studies maintain safe distance from the "Kemetic revivals" of the Ancient
Egyptian religion developing in Europe and the United States from the 1970s.
These approaches involve a preselected, piecemeal historical
"reconstruction" of Ancient Egypt, filling in the many obvious "gaps" with material
post-dating the tradition, like Hermetism,
Hermeticism, or worse,
Abrahamisms like
Qabalah, Christianity orSufism,
each adding bits from their own monotheist sacred texts (containing
fragments of Ancient Egyptian wisdom !). Intertextuality is of all ages.

"The above conception of the world forms quite a
sufficient basis for suggesting that the later notions of nous and
logos, hitherto supposed to have been introduced into Egypt from abroad at a
much later date, were present at this early period. Thus the Greek
tradition of the origin of their philosophy in Egypt undoubtedly contains
more of the truth than has in recent years been conceded. (...) The habit,
later so prevalent among the Greeks, of interpreting philosophically the
functions and relations of the Egyptian gods (...) has already begun in
Egypt before the earliest Greek philosophers were born ; and it is not
impossible that the Greek practice of the interpretations of their own
gods received its first impulse from Egypt." - Breasted,
1901, p.54.

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